Currently, Islamic culture presents a crisis in its traditional masculinity due to social evolution and female emancipation. However, gender roles are still valid since older people are the ones who have power at all levels and therefore do not have permissive and egalitarian attitudes towards women. Most men are conservative and make use of religion to justify their superiority and domination over women.
However, some women have begun to work and contribute to the family economic structure, their level of participation in decision making is minimal. Unfortunately, women’s salaries are lower than men’s, and the latter are considered by religion as superior beings and are allowed to use violence if the woman is not obedient.
This culture of superiority is transmitted from the division of domestic tasks according to gender: boys leave home and cannot be disturbed, girls stay at home. The man has a projection in the public sphere, but the woman only in the domestic. The school transmits this culture: that the woman is inferior, that she must hide her body, since she is the origin of social chaos and evil.
It should be noted that Islamic culture considers that men and women have the same value, but are not equal. However, these gender roles are in constant construction and evolution, hoping that the gap of superiority between men and women is increasingly minimal.
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